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In the 13 years following World War II, a time when people were feeling exuberant and expressing that exuberance in play, Nova Scotia was home to one of the most exciting baseball leagues in Canada. It was a league that would produce over 40 Major League players.
In 1946, the Halifax & District Baseball League began life with a mixture of homegrown talent and imports from the eastern seaboard of the United States. Halifax, Dartmouth, Truro, Liverpool, Kentville, Stellarton and Middleton were the locations of some great teams, players and characters during the summers of the 1940s and 1950s. Nova Scotians were enamored of these teams, which helped create strong community identities and fostered fierce rivalries.
The Halifax & District Baseball League operated between 1946 to 1959, an important era in Nova Scotia’s social and sport heritage. Nova Scotians still look upon the league as having produced the best baseball ever played in the province. This exhibition hopes to stir the memories of those who cheered for their teams and to offer insight to the younger generation on the high caliber of baseball the league produced.
